JungleShadows said:
The other plant societies don't collect the plants nor do they decide on the merit of any particular plant. What they do is to make sure there are no duplicate names and collect information on the hybridizer and any pedigrees of the plants.
that's what we do on our homepage ;-)
the german breeders look at our homepage or ask us for names;
but there are still some breeders who won't look or ask at all because they are away from every contact to other breeders, homepages or societies;
for example Sue Thomas never had contact to any other breeder before we have discovered her.....so she named one of her cultivars Waterlily - but that name has been given to a cultivar from Hugo Philips (BE) in 1988;
and I don't think she would change this name if any society will say so;
also she refused to give any information about the parents of her hybrids; maybe she's worried that other people may copy her breeding-lines!?
Peter
